B-Encoding

Download Chilkat Email ActiveX

The Chilkat Email component automatically "Q" and "B" encodes header fields as necessary. However, the email object provides utility methods for encoding manually, if needed for some unforeseen reason.

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email2")

qEncoded = email.BEncodeBytes("magnà el véder","iso-8859-1")
Response.Write qEncoded & "<br>"

qEncoded = email.BEncodeBytes("magnà el véder","utf-8")
Response.Write qEncoded & "<br>"

'  The output of this program is:
'  =?iso-8859-1?B?bWFnbuAgZWwgdulkZXI=?=
'  =?utf-8?B?bWFnbsOgIGVsIHbDqWRlcg==?=

%>
</body>
</html>